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Lenore Taylor

Lenore Taylor is chief political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. She is a Walkley Award winner, a winner of the Paul Lyneham Award for excellence in press gallery journalism and a former foreign correspondent, based in London. She co-authored a book, "Shitstorm" on the Rudd government's response to the global economic crisis. She has covered federal politics for more than 20 years.

Lenore Taylor NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
BUSINESS groups are demanding the right to buy pollution permits overseas instead of paying Australia's proposed carbon tax, but the government insists foreign purchases will only be allowed once...

Lenore Taylor NATIONAL AFFAIRS
THE multi-party climate committee has failed to agree on a ''model'' for a carbon price despite both Labor and the Greens supporting a ''hybrid'' system of a carbon tax eventually leading to an...

Mark Davis and Lenore Taylor
SUCCESSIVE federal governments have spent more than $5.5 billion over the past decade on climate change programs that are delivering only small reductions in greenhouse gas emissions at unusually...

Lenore Taylor
THE Gillard government is finalising a plan for a fixed carbon price that eventually leads to an emissions trading scheme, and it is aiming to finally push the contentious climate-change legislation...

Lenore Taylor NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
Business leaders have backed a modest carbon price with compensation for companies unable to pass on the price impost, but in a sign of the difficulties facing the Gillard government the Greens are...

Lenore Taylor
The Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet, has conceded that industry compensation will be ''one of the most important areas of policy difference'' between Labor and the Greens as they negotiate a...

Lenore Taylor NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
THE Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet, has said there is ''no logic'' to the Coalition's argument that Australia should abandon a carbon price as the best way to reduce greenhouse emissions...

Lenore Taylor
The climate change adviser Ross Garnaut has called on Australian scholars to lead the greenhouse policy debate so it is not derailed again by vested interests and squabbles over policy detail.

Lenore Taylor NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
THE Greens have called their own carbon price summit next week to try to build momentum for an ambitious greenhouse policy as the cross-party climate change committee gets down to work.

Lenore Taylor NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
THE federal government has been warned electricity prices will rise further unless power generators get a clear carbon price by 2012 and that Australia's greenhouse gas reduction targets are already...

Lenore Taylor
A LEADING constitutional lawyer says the government is misinterpreting ''new'' legal advice that has been seized on by the Water Minister, Tony Burke, to reassure angry farmers he can give social and...

Lenore Taylor
The Water Minister, Tony Burke, has demanded the independent Murray-Darling Basin Authority accept new legal advice that he says proves the 2007 Water Act allows full consideration of the social and...

Lenore Taylor NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
A NATIONAL Party senator has called on the government to reconsider the foundation of Murray-Darling water reform, the Coalition's 2007 Water Act, and backed controversial demands by irrigator...

Lenore Taylor
FARMERS are calling for the federal Water Act to be changed because it is based on an international treaty that ensures social and economic factors are not properly assessed by the water reform...

Lenore Taylor NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
THE incompatible needs of the irrigation industry and the ecology of Australia's most important river system were always going to have to be adjudicated some time. That time has finally come.